[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urUSa0YMEDI Click for a preview]]

In search of some history and solar facilities in operation in Europe.

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power Solar power plants]]

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_thermal_energy Solar thermal energy]]

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_thermal_power_stations List of stations]]

[[http://www.sunreign.com/info/SolarThermalPowerPlants Solar Thermal Powerplant list]]

[[http://books.google.nl/books?id=IU5DAAAAIAAJ&ots=DzN1wlRMfc&dq=La%20Chaleur%20solaire%20et%20ses%20Applications%20industrielles%20(1869)&hl=en&pg=PP9#v=onepage&q=La%20Chaleur%20solaire%20et%20ses%20Applications%20industrielles%20(1869)&f=false Oldest book on solar power]]

[[http://books.google.nl/books?id=OEhHtP24ybIC&lpg=PA270&dq=shuman%20solar&hl=en&pg=PR7#v=onepage&q=shuman%20solar&f=false Book anout Shuman]]

[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_IMRLi8HdY&feature=related Interview on CSP]]

David Mills

"Big plants ate 2 GW plants"

"This is the time, we have the technology"

"We have to go over 400 ppm before we go under it" (that is impossible)

"Fighting fossil fuel to compete with poor countries"

======Euro Energy Tour 2010======

|=|Day|=|Day|=|Destination|=||=|
|| 1||Sunday||The Hague||aug 29||
||2||Monday||Odeillo||aug 30||
||3||Tuesday||Toulouse||aug31||
||4||Wednesday||Sevilla||sept1||
||5||Thursday||Sevilla||sept2||
||6||Friday||Sevilla||sept3||
||7||Saturday|||Sevilla||sept4||
||8||Sunday|||Sevilla||sept5||
||9||Monday|||Sevilla||sept6||
||10||Tuesday||Paris||sept7||

===Leg One, Perpignan, Odeillo, France (16 hours, sunday to monday) ===
**update august 30th**
Arrived! Interesting trip. Odeillo and the Pyrenees are obviously mountainous areas, its cold it lies 1500 above sealevel. The last leg of the trip was using a really old diesel, open top! Interrail sucks, most services have standard reservation requirement which means you always pay about 15 to 20 euro per leg more. The big competitor ticket is the [[http://www.eurail.com/eurail-global-pass?currency=eur eurail global pass]].

-sunday
260 Interrail
18.5 Ticket to Germany
5 Taxi Frankfurt
-monday
20 Reservation Frankfurt Paris Est
1,2 Subway Paris
18,5 Reservation TGV Perpignan
15 misc food
30 Hotel Odeillo
-tuesday
15 misc food Odeillo
50 Hotel Toulouse
-wednesday
10 misc food Toulouse-Sevilla
25 Reservations Toulouse Seville
75 Hotel Sevilla 3 days
-thursday
20 Water and tapas
-friday
20 Bike rental
15 misc food
-saturday
6 Visit Seville cathedral
15 misc food
-sunday
60 Reservations interrail to Bruxelles
15 Misc food
-monday
15 food
0 Hotel Toulouse due to TGV delay (payed by SNCF)
-tuesday
15 food
10 border to the Hague (got a 2 euro break)


[[http://www.foursolaire-fontromeu.fr/ Solar Furnace]]
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_furnace wiki page]]

Héliodyssée - Grand Four Solaire d'Odeillo
7, rue du four solaire
66120 Font Romeu Odeillo Via - France

Tel : 00 33 (0)4 68 30 77 86
Fax : 00 33 (0)4 68 04 28 11

[[http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=7DceAAAAEBAJ&dq=diamond+solar+furncae Solar silicon1 ]]
[[http://www.google.com/patents?id=MuchAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false solar diamound coating]]

===Leg Two, Sevilla === (Through Perpignan, tuesday)
[[http://www.leonardo-energy.org/node/5851 Course on CSP]]
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_tower Solar tower]]
[[http://www.abengoasolar.com/corp/web/en/index.html Abengoa Solar]]
[[http://www.absolicon.com/_about_solar_energy/1094_installation_seville_Solar_kuantica_eng.php Solar Cooling]]
[[http://www.alhambradegranada.org/en/ (Alhambra)]]
[[http://www.abengoasolar.com/corp/web/en/our_projects/solucar/solnova/index.html Solnova Seville]]
[[http://ec.europa.eu/energy/res/sectors/doc/csp/ps10_final_report.pdf PS10 report]]

[[http://www.rentabikesevilla.com/ Bike rental]]

===Next trip: Portugal===
[[http://www.care2.com/greenliving/portugal-close-to-45-renewable-electricity.html Smart Protugal]]
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agu%C3%A7adoura_Wave_Farm Wave farm]]
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moura_Photovoltaic_Power_Station Moura1 ]]
[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-CgsQnUAU Moura 2]]
[[http://www.fluitecnik.com/index.php?id=118 Solar Plant]]

M.F.S. (MOURA FLUITECNIK SOLAR)
(Solar Modules Manufacturing Plant FTV)
Polo Tecnológico Moura, Lote nº 1
7860 - Moura - Portugal
Tel. +00351 285 20 00 70
Fax +00351 285 25 47 49
Latitude: 38.134675 // Longitude: -7.454867


===Leg Three Moura, Portugal===
Funcheira - Beja - Moura?
[[http://www.gekkoportugal.com/hydro%20power%20in%20portugal.htm Aquelva 5 km from Moura]]

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moura_Photovoltaic_Power_Station Mauro Portugal]]
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpa_solar_power_plant Serpa power]]

=====Budget=====
Train - 360 Euro
Day budget - 50 Euro
Total - 860 Euro

===Rance, France===
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rance_Tidal_Power_Station tidal power plant]]
===Milleau,France===
[[http://www.vlh-turbine.com/EN/html/CommissioningOfTheMillauTurbine.html River Turbine]]
===Odeillo, France===
[[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_solaire_d%27Odeillo Four Solaire]]
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themis_(solar_power_plant) Themis solar tower]]
===Leg Three Badajos, Spain (night train, 9 hours)===
[[http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/13/spain-solar-power La Florida Parabolic trough plant]]


===(tentative) Day Five Porto, Portugal (night train 14)===
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agu%C3%A7adoura_Wave_Farm Aguçadoura Wave power farm]] near [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B3voa_de_Varzim Povoa de Varzim]] [[http://www.france24.com/en/20080930-wave-power-source-electricity-portugal-clean-renewable-energy-pelamis video]]